Archive for November, 2007

Geek Test, Going down hill fast

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Going back towo years i took a geek test, well in a moment of boredem i took it again,
Its bad news i am afraid
Overall, you scored as follows:

0% scored higher (more computer geeky),
0% scored the same, and
100% scored lower (less geeky).
Compared to those in the same age group as you:

0% scored higher (more computer geeky),
0% [...]

Wordpress

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

My ldap enabled enterprise bloging platform at “the firm” is picking up momentum, lets hope it scales properly, it has been built on the same 3Tera grid technology as wordpress.com But only time will tell
Only one little snag, guess who has to do a blogging with wordpress demo at the Xmas meeting

Two more sleeps

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Until the 19th anniversary of my 21st birthday. This weekend could go in many directions, only time will tell how much I recall on monday. My lovely wife has planned a weekend away with ten friends, more than that I do not know. I hope she has packed some resolve…………

Enterprise RSS aggregation

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

I am currently looking at Enterprise RSS technology. What a mine field !
No one knows what they want, let alone how to do it.
So I look at it like this.
1. Central location to discover internal and external RSS feeds
2. RSS feed consumption stats
3. Easy to use
4. Easy to configure
5. Flexible
Newsgator seem to provide all of [...]

Bounced email [*****SPAM***** Policy Framework]

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

I??have had quite a few of these lately ,
this is the result of spam tosser spoofing email from my domain, but the bit that has pissed me off here is the fact the target email server even bothered to send a reply.
I know the email is spoofed as it has breached the SPF, so why [...]

Microsoft, Tech-ed IT Forum, Barcelona, Day 5

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

The Last day ….??My brain is close to melt down, so i only attened a few sessions today, Stuck some labs in the gaps to practice what we had been learning.so
Session 1, Delivering rich media with server 2008, shame the presenter could not deliver a rich presentation.
at least the new media extensions support MP3s and [...]

Microsoft, Tech-ed IT Forum, Barcelona, Day 4

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Just in case anyone thinks a week at TechEd in Barcelona is a jolly, you are sadly mistaken. FIVE days of rapid fire presentations is total DATA overload, which despite the doing apparently nothing is extremely tiring.
So Day 4…..
Session 1. PHP on windows, now don???t laugh. Monday saw the release of fastCGI for windows server [...]

Microsoft, Tech-ed IT Forum, Barcelona, Day 3

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Well it is actually day 5, and nearly time to go home, but i have only just found the time to to write this up
Yet another day of many sessions and information over load
Session 1. Microsoft search server, wow look like that have spent some time on this one, really cool fedarated queries etc , [...]

Microsoft, Tech-ed IT Forum, Barcelona, Day 2

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Very Busy day,??6 Session, some good some bad
session 1, IIS7 to IT Pro’s by Issac Roybal
Tonnes of really good new features, many of which directly address problem i have experianced over the past FOUR years, I wonder when i can get it on the ground
Session 2, went to a?? great hand on, self paced LAB [...]

Microsoft, Tech-ed IT Forum, Barcelona, Day 1

Monday, November 12th, 2007

just left the Keynote speech at MS TechEd in Barcelona
some really great stuff on the horizon, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, system center etc,
However the most impressive thing for my, as a geek, was Home server, and dedcated windows based server for the home, automated back up household PCs, support from windows media devices such as [...]


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